When it Finally Landed, poetry by Scott Rohrer at Spillwords.com

When it Finally Landed

When it Finally Landed

written by: Scott Rohrer

 

I wrote a poem once,
a fourth grade haiku.

After you, these past few weeks,
I’ve written twenty-two.

Now every lyric, every song
lands,
like it always meant to.

Before you, I was lost
in words, in music,
hearing the beat,
but missing the message.

Maybe that’s why
you played what you did,
songs you knew would stay,
even if I didn’t.

Then I lost you.

Now it follows me,
those same songs,
the ones I tie to you,
playing louder than before,
saying what I didn’t catch then.

Your poetry, the silence,
every word I let pass through,

One line you wrote,
one I’ll always love,
the one that hit clear.

“May our love play on.”

Now every lyric comes through,
painfully loud.

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